Sleeping more is often associated with laziness – teenagers sleeping in until lunchtime and people snoozing on the job – but the people that think sleeping more is lazy have got it all wrong!

Sleep has been forgotten about in enhancing sports performance because it's not exciting enough to become the latest performance-enhancing trend.

All of the popular performance trends are centered around hydration, nutrition, strength and conditioning, or the latest massage gun, and don’t get me wrong, these are helpful too.

But sleep is SO primal, and that’s the coolest thing about it — we all sleep, and the factors determining a good or a bad sleep or sleep routine are things that you can easily impact yourself.

All you need to do is optimise your sleeping conditions and your routine at bedtime and in the morning.